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Example sentences for "good sport"

  • O lively with high, child, and turn thee; ah, this is good sport!

  • Ye shall [see] a good sport if ye will abide-- Mankind cometh again; well fare he!

  • There is good sport in this game, if it is played in the right spirit.

  • Those were certainly clumsy affairs, but there was no end of good sport in them.

  • But no matter the name, it is good sport.

  • Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, and there was nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue.

  • After he was gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, which she did very well, which caused my wife and I good sport.

  • Heavy rifles then make a good sport of what would otherwise be a chance of ten to one against the man.

  • These animals had shown as good sport as I had ever witnessed in buffalo-shooting, but the two heavy rifles were fearful odds against them, and they were added to the list of the slain.

  • This day's shooting was the last day of good sport that I ever had at Minneria.

  • A GOOD SPORT I was a little lad, and the older boys called to me from the pier: They called to me: 'Be a sport: be a sport!

  • Well done, Brave boy, you are a sport, a good sport!

  • However, he was willing to teach Gwen because he liked her, thought of her as a good sport, and hoped to profit by his acquaintance with her.

  • The circus boys like a good sport; the real chaps do.

  • I guess you were such a good sport I hated to lose you as a friend, and I hoped a better time would come.

  • Maáyung pulúhun ning nuúga, This cloth will make a good sport shirt.

  • B1; b6] {1} be, become a good sport or sportsmanlike.

  • The kind of girl who likes to dance and play tennis and be a good sport, and all that.

  • Maybe not, for he was, as Tess had said, a "good sport.

  • There may be good sport remaining in distant localities, but the scenes witnessed by Oswell in his youth can never be viewed again.

  • And in Kansas City I was too busy trying to be a good sport.

  • She's a good sport, Edith is," says Hartley.

  • And they say he paid up like a good sport.

  • X A GOOD SPORT Say, fellows, I overheard a remark the other day as I passed a bunch of boys down on the corner.

  • About that time one of the boys whom I knew pulled out of the crowd and coming my way overtook me, so I asked him who was the "good sport" the fellows were talking about.

  • Jefferies regarded many animals as "good sport"; Thoreau as good friends.

  • Hares," he says, "are almost formed on purpose to be good sport.

  • Priscilla, trying her best to ape Virginia's careless manner, and determined to act like a good sport at least.

  • Really, you'd be surprised at what a good sport Vivian's getting to be.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good sport" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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